The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast

16th January 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 291: Bike bubble has popped says industry analyst Rick Vosper SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Industry veteran Rick Vosper TOPICS: Any bursting of the bike boom bubble will reverberate widely and could destabilise global bicycle advocacy efforts. This is therefore of potential concern to cyclists in general, argues bike industry...

11th January 2022 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 290: Launch of Gravel Grinding Hall of Fame with Guitar Ted SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Mark Stevenson aka Guitar Ted TOPICS: The history of gravel riding. LINKS: https://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://twitter.com/carltonreid https://twitter.com/guitarted1961 https://www.ridinggravel.co...

22nd December 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 289: Two Volcano Sprint winner and bike entrepreneur Andrew Phillips SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Andrew Phillips LINKS: https://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://www.orb.bike https://www. Zolla.cc https://www.sinewavecycles.com

13th December 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 288: Why is anti-roads campaigner John Stewart against LTNs? SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: John Stewart, Chair of Campaign for Better Transport and UK Noise Association and a long time anti-roads campaigner TOPICS: Anti-road campaigner John Stewart is anti-LTN: why? LINKS: https://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.t...

22nd November 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 287: Chris Froome and Hammerhead CEO Pieter Morgan SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Chris Froome and Pieter Morgan TOPICS: Chris Froome's investment in Pieter Morgan's Hammerhead. LINKS: https://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://nextventures.com/team/ https://www.hammerhead.io/

14th November 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 286: COP26 SPECIAL: The Transition to Zero Cars SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: US Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon; Greater Manchester's transport commissioner Chris Boardman and the city region's mayor Andy Burnham; the UCI's Advocacy and Development Manager Isabella Burczak; Susan Claris and Stephen Edwards of Living S...

29th October 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 285: Ride For Their Lives SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Childrens' health professionals on the Ride for Their Lives ride. TOPICS: 30 or so childrens' health professionals are riding from London to Glasgow to deliver a letter to world leaders at COP24. I joined them on day six between Newcastle and Carlisle. LINKS: https://www...

4th October 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 284: Birmingham to become a super-sized low-traffic neighbourhood SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Cllr Waseem Zaffar TOPICS: 45-minute interview with Birmingham's city council's transport lead Waseem Zaffar on a day the council launched its radical and potentially transformative transport plan. The UK's motorway city is to priori...

19th September 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 283: Autonorama SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Peter Norton TOPICS: US academic Peter Norton, author of the classic "Fighting Traffic," talks about his new book "Autonorama" which details the historically-resonant threat to pedestrians and cyclists from driverless vehicles. LINKS: https://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https...

12th September 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 282: Veloforte SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Marc and Lara Giusti TOPICS: A 50-minute chat with Veloforte founders Marc and Lara Guisti. LINKS: https://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://veloforte.com

5th September 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 281: "If you look at the tree, you hit the tree": eMTBing Guiding Masterclass With H+I's Chris Gibbs SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Chris Gibbs and Jude Reid TOPICS: Carlton's wife Jude rides to work on an electric bike but hasn't ridden off road for more than 20 years. Cue this three-day eMTB press trip in Cairngorms courtes...

22nd August 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 280: In conversation with LeBlanq's foodie founders Justin Clarke and Ashley Palmer-Watts SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Justin Clarke and Ashley Palmer-Watts TOPICS: The founders of LeBlanq drill down into their upscale gastromy-based cycling getaways and why, for them, it's got to be jus, not gels. LINKS: https://www. Jensonu...

15th August 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 279: Bike Portland's Jonathan Maus SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Jonathan Maus TOPICS: 16 years of Bike Portland LINKS: https://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com http://bikeportland.org http://twitter.com/BikePortland http://instagram.com/bikeportland

1st August 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 278: Genetically redundant at 40: The Midlife Cyclist with Phil Cavell SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Phil Cavell TOPICS: Talking with Cyclefit's Phil Cavell, author of "The Midlife Cyclist." LINKS: https://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://www.cyclefit.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/philcavell?lan...

11th July 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 277: Le Tour: Too Hot to Handle? SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Donna Tocci and Jim Moss TOPICS: Mostly Tour de France LINKS: www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen www.the-spokesmen.com

20th June May 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 276: From San Fran Bike Courier to BBC Journalist Via the Great North Road SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Steve Silk TOPICS: The Great North Road. Coaching inns. Spitfires and warm beer. Wherries. Brexit. BBC impartiality. Beaming about Beamish. Forgetting about being a San Francisco bike courier. Chamois cream. Bonking. Norfo...

12th May 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 275: Pump for Peace with Claudio Caluori SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Claudio Caluori TOPICS: "The kids were just riding and riding and riding and riding, and I had tears in my eyes." A chat about Pump for Peace with downhill mountain biker and trail builder Claudio Caluori of Velosolutions, the world's foremost pump track constr...

9th May 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 274: Curbing cars with Chris and Melissa Bruntlett SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Chris and Melissa Bruntlett TOPICS: A 65-minute chat with Chris and Melissa Bruntlett, authors of "Curbing Traffic" from Island Press and published at the end of June. LINKS: http://www. Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen http://www.the- spokesmen.com Promo c...

20th April 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 272: Revolutions: How women changed the world on two wheels SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Hannah Ross TOPICS: A one-hour chat with Hannah Ross, author of "Revolutions," a new book which explores how the world was changed by women riding bicycles, and how it's still being changed. For the better. LINKS: www. Jensonusa.com/thespok...

4th April 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 271: White House Recognizes Induced Demand Exists Meaning There's Now a Bicycle-Shaped Overton Window That Needs Jamming Open SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Meredith Glaser and Kevin Krizek TOPICS: Discussing President Biden's American Jobs Plan and how Pete Buttigieg is shaping up to be the most people-friendly Transport Secreta...

21st March 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 270: Streets for kids SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Alison Stenning and Sally Watson TOPICS: Play streets, cycling and the pop-up protected cycleway on the NE England coast, the Sunrise Cycleway LINKS: https://twitter.com/alisonstenning https://twitter.com/salawatson https://twitter.com/newcycling https://twitter.com/playmeetst...

20th March 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 269: Canaries in the Coal Mine: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Tim Gill TOPICS: For too long, we have neglected children's independent mobility. Author and play expert Tim Gill expounds on the theory that children are the canaries in the coal mine — if cities don't work for c...

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 268: Bike Freak: Being Gary Fisher SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Gary Fisher TOPICS: I walk him Gary backyards through his life, starting now and ending in 1950, the year he was born. LINKS:  https://twitter.com/gary_fisher https://www.bluetrainpublishing.com/books-blog/being-gary-fisher https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Sunday 7th February 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 267: Put money on the table and let's get these modes moving SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Francois Bausch, Deputy Minister, Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Luxembourg Claudia Dobles Camargo, First Lady, Costa Rica Dagmawit Moges, Minister of Transport, Ethiopia Jürgen Zattler, Deputy Director General for Multi...